Has Alaska Been Saved?

According to Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, President Donald Trump saved Alaska on his first day in office when he signed an executive order that unlocked the “bounty of natural wealth” in Alaska. This bounty includes oil, gas, minerals, and timber. Virginia Allen at The Daily Signal reported on an interview with Dunleavy at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. 

“Everything has changed” for Alaska’s energy and natural resources production under the Trump administration, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says….

“Whatever Alaska has is now open for business,” Dunleavy told The Daily Signal….

Trump’s actions have “rescued Alaska – rescued, I think, the country, and quite frankly, the world – from this social-engineering approach that was taking place,” the Alaska governor.

The Biden administration was “brutal” to Alaska, Dunleavy said, adding that “opportunity was stolen left and right through upwards of 66, 68 executive orders and actions by the federal government.” Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, “offshore oil leases were suspended,” the governor explained, and leases for oil production were slowed.

“In many respects, our future in oil production in Alaska was basically doomed” under Biden, Dunleavy said. “When President Trump came in, all that has changed.”

With Trump in office, Alaska is moving ahead with the construction of an 800-mile natural gas pipeline that will enable the U.S. to ship gas to Asian allies. The pipeline starts in Prudhoe Bay in far north Alaska, where the state’s major oil and gas fields are located, and would end south of Anchorage in Nikiski, Alaska, where the gas can be liquefied before being exported to Asia.

The pipeline project will create “thousands and thousands of jobs,” Dunleavy said, adding, “It’s going to be a golden age for this country.”

It is much safer for America’s Asian allies to get their natural gas from the U.S., according to the governor, who says his hope is that shipments can be consistent “for at least 50 to 60 years.”

Dunleavy predicts that the increased oil and gas production will positively affect markets and lead to lower prices for American consumers at the gas pump….

Although the governor expects environmental groups to attempt to stop the pipeline construction. However, he expects the projects to eventually move forward. The governor also hopes that Congress passes some laws to stop the “whipsawing effect” whenever there is a change in administrations. According to Dunleavy, there are members of Congress who see the need for such legislation.